West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 36
Every one of those grog shop keepers keep a horse and kitterine , that is , a one horse chaise , and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
Every one of those grog shop keepers keep a horse and kitterine , that is , a one horse chaise , and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war ...
الصفحة 42
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
الصفحة 61
... customary for travelling people to call on each other , though strangers , for refreshment for themselves , servants , and horses , and that too without any ceremony or formality , and behave friendly and police to each other .
... customary for travelling people to call on each other , though strangers , for refreshment for themselves , servants , and horses , and that too without any ceremony or formality , and behave friendly and police to each other .
الصفحة 63
It is something surprising to think what frequent executions take place , the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horse's .
It is something surprising to think what frequent executions take place , the news papers teem with little more than that of fales , vendues , houses and lands to be rented , runaway negroes , and strayed horse's .
الصفحة 74
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
An attorney commonly supplies himself and friends with horses , cattle , sheep , poultry , sugar , rum , coffee , corn , & c . & c . from the plantacions , and accounts for them as his conscience directs . An attorney borrows the cattle ...
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf